Tbh the frequent pain from needing to read it again often happens because it was so hard to write correctly that it misbehaves on some data and you need to adjust it.

• Ok, so is it correct to say it has some rotation properties?
• Hahaha, oh no. Nonononono. No. Not at all correct no. However, it’s the best we’ve got so yeah that’s what we’re going with.

Not much but people will look at you funny.

Ah, they found it. Was wondering who went in to downvote all the discussion.

Anyhoo “haters gonna hate” is supposed to mean that you are succeeding despite the criticism.

It doesn’t really have the same bite while still begging.

Their admin tried to advertise it to !gaming yesterday, by linking to his community for downloading malware posing as pirated AAA games.

I kept an unreasonably open mind and went to look though the site, and it seemed hopeless as a concept. Especially their statement that they could not reconcile moderation with free speech, shows that they aren’t mentally equipped to run a site.

“Q: Will this site be overrun with racists?”, “A: If people offend you, block them. If a community is dominated by people you don’t get along with, leave it.”

Yeah buddy that’s exactly the decision we make for your entire site.

The phrase “migrate to web3” is an absurdist joke. It’s something I would say to prank a colleague.

Idea for DND character: Priest from Earth

You know in your heart there is a god and you must spread the holy teachings to the common folk, but you have no divine powers to lean on.

Your god is all “I help those who help themselves”. Or, you assume that is the case because your god doesn’t tell you anything directly, intervene in your business, or react to anything you ask of it.

So, no divine or magic powers. Just go hard on strength and charisma.

You were asked to be a total asshole and you complied.

We have several Community Market arrangements in my town. People who make homemade stuff, like decorations, knitwear, art, crafts, jam, soap etc can book a stand for a day or several. It’s extremely exhausting to sit on a shitty chair for 8 hours straight in a crowded place, and especially in the Christmas market when you are half outside and temperatures are close to freezing, so most people book two days in a row at most.

This one group of people just books end-to-end for the entire market duration. Like, weeks. They show up, fill their stand with TEMU crap, and take turns to sit at the stand and consistently sell nothing to nobody.

The quality of a work lies not in how it makes you feel, but in how many polysyllabic words it allows you to use when talking about it.

Haha, that’s the attitude :)

I did say, in a nice way, that “they are your competitors either way”.

And yeah, companies treating interviews as a one-way evaluation is a red flag.

There was this book that was hype around 2010, called “Are you smart enough to work at Google?”. It was full of interview questions and brainteasers that I strongly suspected I’d find interesting, but I couldn’t get over the title. I wanted to scream “Fuck you, book! Is Google smart enough to hire ME?!”

We are, as a profession, systematically manipulated via these interview processes to feel stupid and inferior to drive down wages. I’d rather come off as slightly too arrogant now and then, rather than submit to that.

Real conversation, not exaggerated. Actually slightly toned down:

“We offer a competitive salary! It’s $number!”

“I have 2 offers 10% higher, from a shipping company and a finance company, in the same city”

“We don’t compete with the finance and shipping sectors”

“And 15% higher in one of the consultancies”

“We don’t compete with consultancies either”

(I think I’m going to put Reigninh Monarch of Norway on my CV. I just don’t compete with King Harald.)

Guns 'n Poses? Guns 'n Ropes? …hmm still kinda cool.

Guys 'n Roses? Buns 'n Roses?

Fleetwood Man

Scooner

Guts 'n Roses

The Olsen Brothels

The Fillers

If you express your viewpoint in a kind way, that’s genuinely the most “winning” you can possibly achieve.

Convincing people in one go is not achievable by just finding the right words.

People may disagree. They may downvote you to hell. They may thank you. They may agree. They may misunderstand.

But as long as you write kindly, people will read what you say and give it thought. Maybe it plants a seed for them to change their mind another time.

Go for it! Let your enemies learn that you can come for them any time!

Thanks.

Where can one find more context? Just looking at this tweet, it looks like she is straight up calling Elon a literal nazi.

I think it’s “learned helplessness”, sadly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Like much of math, people are often eager to talk about the cool stuff and make it sound hard because they are proud they understood it. For a newcomer, this is just a brick in the face.

Real programmers modulate their voice and scream precisely into the microphone such that the recorded audio file is valid machine code.